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Top Song(s)
• Lose Control - Teddy Swims
• Espresso - Sabrina Carpente
• Beautiful Things - Benson Boone
• Touch - KATSEYE
• Orun - Ayra Starr
Top Film(s)
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Inside Out 2
• Challengers
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Women - Kristin Hannah
• Funny Story - Emily Henry
• Bride - Ali Hazelwood
• Just for the Summer - Abby Jimenez
• House of Flame and Shadow - Sarah J. Maas
Famous Deaths
• January 1 - Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist who invented nine programming languages (Pascal, Oberon)
• February 6 - Sebastian Pinera, Chilean businessman and politician (President of Chile, 2010-14 and 2018-22)
• March 4 - Philip Batt, American politician (Governor of Idaho, 1995-99)
• April 25 - Thomas Kessler, Swiss composer, and electronic music pioneer
• May 19 - Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian jurist and President of Iran (2021-24)
• June 7 - Bill Anders, American USAF Major General, and NASA astronaut (Apollo 8)
• July 10 - Joe Engle, American USAF Major General, test pilot (X-15), and NASA astronaut (STS-2; STS-51-I)
• August 19 - Mike Lynch, English tech entrepreneur, founder of the Autonomy Corporation
• September 11 - Alberto Fujimori. President of Peru (1990-2000)
• November 5 - Elwood Edwards, American broadcast technician, and the voice of AOL's catchphrase "You've got mail"
Medical/Science/Technology
• The first functional semiconductor made from graphene is created.
• An analysis of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes concludes scaling them could yield substantial public health benefits.
• A study of proteins in cerebrospinal fluid indicates there are five subtypes of Alzheimer's disease.
• Seaweed farming could be set up as a resilient food solution within roughly a year in abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios.
• Chemists report studies finding that long-chain fatty acids were produced in ancient hydrothermal vents.
• An AI-based study shows for the first time that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person share strong detectable similarities.
• Japan becomes the fifth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, with its SLIM mission.
• A viable and sustainable approach for gold recovery from e-waste is demonstrated.
• Elon Musk's startup Neuralink implants their first microchip into a human brain.
• The removal of HIV from infected cells using CRISPR gene-editing technology is reported.
Political
• January 10 - Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie suspends his 2024 campaign for president.
• January 25 - The United States Department of Commerce issues a $15 million bounty for information on Hossein Hatefi Ardakani.
• February 13 – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is impeached by the House of Representatives.
• February 21 - Biden cancels another $1.2 billion of student loan debts for nearly 153,000 people.
• June 12 - The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit by the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre who were seeking reparations.
• June 29 – The Biden administration expands its Temporary Protected Status program to 309,000 Haitians.
• July 21 - President Biden announces he will withdraw from the 2024 presidential election.
• August 23 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his campaign for the presidency and endorses Donald Trump.
• November 5 - Donald Trump, with his running mate JD Vance, is elected for a second non-consecutive term.
• December 1 – President Biden issues a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, despite previously pledging against doing so.
National
• January 4 - Two people are killed and six others are injured in a school shooting in Perry, Iowa.
• January 26 - The Justice Department finds former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo liable for sexual harassment.
• February 1 - Israel–Hamas war: The US imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers over the violence in West Bank.
• March 2 – The United States military announces plans to begin airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza.
• April 2 – General Electric splits into three independent companies: GE Aerospace, GE Vernova and GE HealthCare.
• May 2 - Florida becomes the first state in the United States to ban cultured meat.
• June 5 - A panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration rejects MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD.
• July 3 - At least 26,000 people are forced to evacuate amidst dozens of large wildfires in Northern California.
• August 15 – Five people are charged in relation to the death of Friends star Matthew Perry.
• September 2 - Four homeless people are randomly killed during a mass shooting on a CTA train in suburban Chicago.
Worldwide
• January 1 - A 7.5 earthquake strikes the western coast of Japan (Noto Peninsula), killing at least 462 people and injuring 1,344 others.
• February 11 – In the closest presidential election in Finnish history, Alexander Stubb is elected president in the second round.
• March 13 – The Artificial Intelligence Act, is passed by the European Union.
• April 16 – At least 32 people are killed when heavy rainfall strikes the Middle East, causing flash flooding.
• May 24 - A major landslide in Papua New Guinea kills 160–2,000+ people, with many more buried.
• June 10 – A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima.
• July 1 – Hurricane Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record after devastating the island of Carriacou, Grenada.
• August 24 – In Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, 600 civilians are victims of a massacre by Islamists associated with Al-Qaeda.
• October 1 - Iran attacks Israel with ballistic missiles as a response to Israel's offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
• November 21 - Terrorists in Peshawar, Pakistan, ambush a group of vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims, killing 46 and injuring 20.